Chapter 214 – The business collapsed before it even began


After dinner, Lin Baici was about to wash the dishes when Gu Qingxiang stopped him.

“I’ll wash the dishes. You go review what you’ve learned before. I’ll check on you later.”

Gu Qingxiang didn’t allow Lin Baici to refuse, and she actually enjoyed doing these household chores.

“Mhm.”

Lin Baici entered the study and found a piece of paper on the desk. It was a study plan that Gu Qingxiang had made according to his talents.

“Is the workload this heavy?”

Lin Baici noticed there were no ‘tutoring’ sessions on Tuesday and Friday nights because he had classes at school. For the rest of the time, including Saturday and Sunday, there were ‘tutoring’ sessions every evening, each lasting three hours.

Clearly, Gu Qingxiang had looked over Lin Baici’s class schedule.

“…”

Lin Baici’s scalp tingled. Although it felt good to be with Gu Qingxiang, wasn’t this study schedule a bit too intense?

As a divine hunter, his future was set, and the compensation was quite good. He no longer needed to bury himself in books.

Wouldn’t it be better to enjoy the delightful life of a college student with all this time?

After finishing the chores, Gu Qingxiang came over and saw Lin Baici studying hard without playing with his phone. She nodded in satisfaction and then sat beside him.

“Start dictating words!”

Gu Qingxiang didn’t waste words and immediately turned into a home tutor. This session lasted an hour and a half.

Lin Baici felt overwhelmed.

Since graduating from high school, he had never worked this hard. Although he could handle it physically and mentally, he felt a little unhappy psychologically.

Gu Qingxiang put down the textbook: “What’s wrong? Do you think I’m too strict?”

“No.” Lin Baici quickly shook his head. “I just think that with all my hard work, shouldn’t there be some reward?”

After saying this, Lin Baici regretted it.

She was teaching him Korean in her private time without charging a fee, and he was asking for a reward?

That was too much!

Just as Lin Baici was about to apologize, Gu Qingxiang spoke: “What reward do you want?”

Gu Qingxiang looked at Lin Baici, the soft light of the desk lamp casting a glow on his face, making him look as tempting as a piece of chocolate. She couldn’t help but swallow her saliva.

“…”

Was she really offering?

Lin Baici didn’t know how to respond for a moment.

The counselor, perhaps because she was at home, didn’t treat Lin Baici as an outsider, so she dressed very casually. She wore a loose, long woolen sweater with a deep V-neck that covered her thighs, light gray leggings underneath, and a pair of slippers on her feet.

【Devour her! It’s a great tonic!】

Lin Baici subconsciously wrapped his arms around Gu Qingxiang’s waist: “Qingxiang, be my girlfriend?”

Actually, Gu Qingxiang was quite pretty and had a good figure. She just didn’t know how to dress up and often wore large glasses that covered half of her face, completely hiding her actually spirited eyes.

Gu Qingxiang shook her head.

Seeing this, Lin Baici felt an inexplicable sense of loss and let go of her. He lowered his head and twirled a pen unconsciously.

Gu Qingxiang sighed when she saw Lin Baici like this, leaned over, and kissed his left cheek.

“Ah?”

Lin Baici didn’t understand.

Wasn’t she refusing to be his girlfriend?

“As long as you perform well, I can give you some small rewards like this, but don’t bring up the topic of being my girlfriend again!”

Gu Qingxiang explained.

“Why?”

Lin Baici was confused.

“Don’t ask.”

Gu Qingxiang raised her right index finger to her lips, making a shushing gesture.

“Actually, I have a job now, with a very high salary!”

Lin Baici thought Gu Qingxiang was refusing because of her job. She could simply quit since she hadn’t been a counselor for long.

“I can support you!”

Lin Baici said this with confidence.

“I don’t need anyone to support me!”

Gu Qingxiang’s reply was cold, but Lin Baici’s statement made her feel comfortable. So she reached out, hugged Lin Baici’s head, and placed it against her chest.

Here’s a little reward.

“…”

Lin Baici was completely flustered.

He suddenly realized that he didn’t understand this woman at all. He used to think she was a country girl who had just started working, shy, not good at conversation, not good at dressing up, and although she was a counselor, she was no different from a senior student since she had just started working.

But now, Gu Qingxiang’s values seemed very strange?

However, the touch on his face felt really good!

Lin Baici was somewhat addicted.

【Why bother with so much? Just devour her!】

The Food God suggested.

At nine o’clock, Gu Qingxiang ended the tutoring session and went to the kitchen to peel a fruit: “Go back early, don’t wander around, get up on time for class, and don’t always skip.”

“Mhm!”

Lin Baici responded, eating an apple as he went downstairs. After leaving the building and walking a bit further, he looked up at the building.

With his vision, he could see Gu Qingxiang standing on the balcony of the living room, obviously watching him.

The residential complex was close to Haijing Polytechnic. Lin Baici strolled into the campus, where many couples were wandering around late at night.

The lights in the teaching building and the study rooms were bright.

If he hadn’t become a divine hunter, he would also be one of those studying in the study rooms, working hard to find a good job after graduation.

Lin Baici entered Dormitory Building No. 2, and the mixed smells of sweat, stinky socks, instant noodles, and more immediately hit him.

Quite refreshing!

Achoo!

Lin Baici rubbed his nose.

After eating a deity raw in the museum’s God’s Ruins, as Lin Baici gradually digested it, his physique began to strengthen, including his sense of smell, and his senses were enhanced once again.

Once Lin Baici completely digested the deity, even the power of divine grace would be strengthened.

Dormitory 906.

Lin Baici pushed the door open, and the sound of Xu Daguan’s live broadcast immediately filled his ears.

“Which fan will donate a plane, and I’ll immediately video call Hua Yueyu!”

Xu Daguan sat on the bed, chatting and goofing off with a bunch of fans.

Qian Jiahui and Fang Mingyuan were teaming up to play PUBG.

“Damn, Lao Bai, you finally deigned to come back?”

Fang Mingyuan glanced at Lin Baici: “I thought you were so happy you forgot about us!”

He thought that among the roommates, Qian Jiahui would be the one least concerned about school rules, but Lin Baici was even more so.

“If you keep this up, failing courses will be the least of your problems. You might even be advised to withdraw!”

This was a bit offensive, but Fang Mingyuan treated Lin Baici as a buddy, so he seriously reminded him, and while saying this, he glanced at Liu Yu’s bed.

The implication was clear: this guy will probably secretly report you.

“Didn’t go play basketball?”

Lin Baici understood instantly. Liu Yu wasn’t there; he had gone to study. Hu Wenwu was washing clothes on the balcony.

“Twisted my right foot.”

In fact, Fang Mingyuan’s cousin had let slip while they were eating two days ago, revealing the profession of ‘divine hunter.’

A new world’s door immediately opened for Fang Mingyuan, and he suddenly felt that his dream of becoming a professional basketball player and playing in the NBA seemed trivial.

Being a divine hunter, purifying rule pollution, containing divine remains, saving humanity—how cool was that job!

According to his cousin, he had experienced a God’s Ruins during the National Day holiday and met a real genius. Fang Mingyuan had always admired his cousin, and this was the first time he saw his cousin show such a ‘fanboy’ expression.

It made him want to meet that genius too, but he knew it was impossible. Even his cousin, a divine hunter, might not get to see that genius again.

And for an ordinary person like him, it was even less likely.

So Fang Mingyuan began to slack off.

“Lao Bai, what do you do every day?”

Qian Jiahui was curious. Seeing his character die, he simply threw the mouse aside, walked up to Lin Baici, and sniffed him: “There’s no scent of a woman, huh?”

Gu Qingxiang and Xia Hongyao, the sisters, didn’t use cosmetics, so Lin Baici didn’t carry their scent.

“Saving the world!”

Lin Baici laughed.

“Do you think you’re Batman?”

Qian Jiahui rolled his eyes and lightly punched Lin Baici in the chest: “Remember the class reunion tomorrow?”

“Remember!”

Lin Baici grabbed a stool and sat next to Qian Jiahui, watching them play games.

“Lao Bai, come do live streaming? Although the era when even a dog could become famous has passed, with your conditions, you can still make it big!”

Xu Daguan persuaded.

“Not interested!”

Lin Baici refused.

“Then are you interested in money? Look at Liu Yu, studying in the study room every day, being the top student. Even if he finds a good job after graduation, a million a year would be the limit. But live streaming, casually promoting some products, can earn you hundreds of thousands!”

Xu Daguan felt Lin Baici was wasting his potential. If he had Lin Baici’s looks and physique, he wouldn’t need any talent. Just sitting there would be enough to make money.

In the live streaming and entertainment circles, female streamers may become popular more easily than males, but the top earners are always men.

Because female fans are crazier and more willing to spend money.

Lin Baici shrugged, thinking you probably don’t know I earn over a billion a year, do you?

“Let’s start a company. Jiahui, Lao Bai, one of you invests, the other provides the technology, we’ll split it three ways, and the remaining 10% will be used to reward employees. How about that?”

Xu Daguan had his eye on Qian Jiahui’s money and Lin Baici’s person. Even if the company failed in the end, the biggest loss would be Qian Jiahui’s.

And Xu Daguan, although running a company would be tiring, could gain experience for starting his own company in the future.

It was a sure-win deal no matter how he looked at it.

“Jiahui, instead of tipping streamers, why not invest?”

Xu Daguan persuaded.

“I don’t mind. I still have plenty of pocket money. If Lao Bai does it, I’ll invest!”

Qian Jiahui trusted Lin Baici more.

“How much?”

Xu Daguan was excited. He knew Qian Jiahui’s pocket money was counted in ‘tens of thousands.’

“One million?”

Qian Jiahui looked at Lin Baici: “Interested?”

This amount made Fang Mingyuan involuntarily look over, but unfortunately, he had no money or talent, otherwise, he would also want to join this startup team.

“Damn, Qian bro, you’re really too rich!”

Xu Daguan shouted excitedly, his heart pounding: “Lao Bai, Qian bro is giving you face, you can’t chicken out, right?”

“If we make the company successful, we’ll be the most glorious students of our class. Maybe in the future, every year at the start of school, we’ll be the star alumni promoted by the school.”

Xu Daguan almost wanted to kneel to Lin Baici.

He hadn’t turned off the live stream, so the viewers could hear his words.

Xiaolongxia only eats the head: Damn, big official, you’re starting to scam people again, and it seems you’ve succeeded?

Single-handed jungler: Did I just hear a million? Students these days are so rich.

Niu o three feet: Aren’t they just bragging?

“Don’t talk nonsense, my Qian bro always keeps his word!”

Xu Daguan was good at flattering, immediately praising Qian Jiahui: “That generous tycoon IP on Shark Platform is my roommate!”

“If he says he’ll put in a million, then he’ll really put in a million!”

This statement had a bit of a provocation, as long as Qian Jiahui still cared about his face, he wouldn’t go back on his word.

“Sorry, not interested!”

Lin Baici saw Hu Wenwu had finished washing clothes and went to wash up.

“Brother Lin, Uncle Lin, Father Lin, I’m kneeling for you!”

Xu Daguan wanted to curse. Lin Baici, are you sick in the head?

Why wouldn’t you take such a no-lose deal?

Even if the company failed in the end, you could at least gain some experience, right?

Liu Yu entered the room and saw this scene. What was going on?

Was Lin Baici bullying someone?

He looked at Qian Jiahui and Fang Mingyuan, waiting for an explanation, but neither of them paid him any attention, which made him feel a sudden jolt.

He knew that the little conflict with Lin Baici on Thursday morning had consequences, and the roommates were all siding with Lin Baici.

Damn it!

What’s so good about this guy?

Xu Daguan also couldn’t understand. Lin Baici was just handsomer than him, right?

Okay!

A lot handsomer, but Qian Jiahui shouldn’t like men, right?

“What’s going on?”

Liu Yu asked Hu Wenwu.

Hu Wenwu casually explained a few words.

After listening, Liu Yu was dumbfounded. Was Lin Baici an idiot?

Why wouldn’t he agree to such a good deal?

But then he felt a small sense of schadenfreude. Thank goodness he didn’t agree, otherwise what if the company really took off?

Damn it!

I absolutely won’t allow anyone to be better than me!”Time to turn off the lights, go to sleep!”

Lin Baici didn’t want to continue this topic.

Qian Jiahui shrugged his shoulders: “If Old Bai isn’t into it, I’m not interested either!”

Brain Damaged: My lord, is it a deal? Are you starting a business?

Green Fungus: Do you even need to ask? Just look at the lord’s ‘my father is dead’ face, and you’ll know it’s a no-go!

Bullish Three Feet: Can someone actually dislike money? This Lin Baici really is an idiot!

The fans were discussing animatedly, making fun of Xu Daguan’s character, not trustworthy.

After replying to Hua Yueyu and Jin Yingzhen’s WeChat messages, Lin Baici went to sleep. The next day, he got up and went to Gu Qingxiang’s place to learn Korean and had lunch together.

At 1 o’clock, Lin Baici went to the school gate, where the boys and girls were gathering to head to Hongdao Pavilion, where the escape room game was very popular recently.

When Lin Baici arrived, Ji Xinyan was already there, but she was standing with a boy who was talking to her, so Lin Baici didn’t go over.

Ji Xinyan saw Lin Baici and waved at him: “Hey, class president!”

Tea Sister called out sweetly, seeing that Lin Baici didn’t seem to want to come over, she took the initiative to walk towards him.

The boy followed her, looking at Lin Baici with some hostility, because he could make Ji Xinyan initiate a conversation.

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